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Paijthāņa
Dhümakeu or Dhūmaketu (Dhumaketu). One of the eighty-eight Gahas:
1. Sur. 107, Sth. 90. Jams. pp. 534-535, SurM. pp. 295-296, SthA. pp. 78-79. Dhūmappabhā (Dhūmaprabhā) An infernal region' numbering fifth in order. It extends to 18000 yojanas. The minimum life span of denizens is ten sägaropama years. It is called Dhūmappabhā because the whole region is smoke-like in appearance. It is the same as Ritthā(1). 1. Sut. 5.1.
| 4. Sth. 757. 2. Sth. 757.
5. AnuH. p. 89, Utts. p. 697. 3. Sam. 18, Dhorugina (Dhorukina) Same as Thārukina.1
1. Jna. 18.
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See N.
Paigā (Pratikā) Daughter of Pajjuppaseņa and wife of Cakkavatti Bambhadatta(1).
1. Uttn. p. 379. 1. Paittba (Pratiștha). Father of Sapāsa(1), the seventh Titthamkara.
1. Sam. 157, Tir. 470.
It is also called
2. Paittha Another name of the month of Bhādrapada. Sapaittha(4). 1. Jam. 132.
2. Sur. 53.
Paitthāņa (Pratisthāna ) A city situated on the bank of Goyāvarii in Dakkhiņāvaha. King Sālavāhaņa reigned there. On being forced by the ruler of Ujjeņi preceptor Kālaga(2) left for Paitthāņa in the middle of the rainy season which he was spending at Ujjeni. There he altered the date of pajjosavanā from the fifth to the fourth day of the bright half of the month of Bhādrapada at the instance of king Sālavāhaņa, for the convinience of the people, in view of their local festival of Indra. Merchant Nägavasu belonged to this place. He had a son named Nāgadatta(2) who 1. BrhKs. p. 1647, VyaM. IV. p. 36.
AvaCu. II. p. 200, AvaN. 1299, VisK. 2. Uttk. p. 229.
P. 406, BrhM. p. 52. 3. BrhKs. p. 1647, VyaM. IV. p. 36, 4. NisCu. III. pp. 130-131, KalpCu.p.89.
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